Retirement Insights

In our recent discussion group, we turned our attention to a sobering but profoundly important topic—death, not in the abstract but as a deeply human, spiritual, and relational experience. Drawing from Robb Noll’s The Art of Dying: Living Fully Into the Life to Come , we explored how modern culture has drifted far from the Christian tradition of dying well and why recovering this lost art matters now more than ever. Facing the Unspoken As Noll notes, contemporary Americans live in unprecedented denial of death. We’ve pushed it out of sight—out of homes, out of conversation, and too often, out of church life. This denial may feel like progress, but it comes at a cost. We’ve lost the ability to help people die well and to mourn well. We’ve forgotten that death is not just a medical event—it’s a deeply spiritual one. Christian tradition once upheld the “good death,” an approach where final moments became a time of reconciliation, repentance, spiritual preparation, and ultimately, a ...